§ Mr. GROVESasked the Minister of Agriculture whether he can give the number of men employed in the different sugar-beet factories for each of the last six months, and indicate the rates of payment they receive?
Mr. GUINNESSAccording to information received from the factory companies, the number of men employed in the nine factories operating last season was:
The highest number employed at a single factory in any one of these months was 960, and the lowest, 34.
October … … 2,671 November … … 3,820 December … … 4,659 January … … 3,985 February … … 2,610 March … … 568 The rates of pay for non-skilled workers, which comprise between 80 and 90 per cent, of the total number of workers, vary from 10½,d. to 1s. 2¾d. per hour.